ASP.NET Web Deployment using Visual Studio

This tutorial series shows how to make an ASP.NET web application that uses SQL Server (not SQL Server Compact) available over the internet by deploying it to a Windows Azure Web Site or a third-party hosting provider. Requires Visual Studio 2012 and the ASP.NET and Web Tools 2012.2 Update, or Visual Studio 2010. For information specific to SQL Server Compact, see ASP.NET Web Deployment with SQL Server Compact using Visual Studio.

• Introduction
• Preparing for Database Deployment
• Web.config File Transformations
• Project Properties
• Deploying to Test
• Setting Folder Permissions
• Deploying to Production
• Deploying a Code Update
• Deploying a Database Update
• Command Line Deployment
• Deploying Extra Files
• Troubleshooting